Well done to the French. No doubt there will be a flood of excuses from people on here!

Yep, the other week we had 'kick Catalans out of Super League, it's been a waste of time because France haven't improved'.

Now it will be 'France have beaten Australia, now they're clearly strong enough to have their own Super League'.

I can confirm 30+ less sales for Scotland vs Italy at Workington, after this afternoons test purchase for the Tonga match, £7.50 is extremely reasonable, however a £2.50 'delivery' fee for a walk in purchase is beyond taking the mickey, good luck with that, it's cheaper on the telly.

Yep, the other week we had 'kick Catalans out of Super League, it's been a waste of time because France haven't improved'.

Now it will be 'France have beaten Australia, now they're clearly strong enough to have their own Super League'.

You're on form tonight Browny!!!

The trick will be to find a way of transferring the competitiveness of the French at age limited rugby to open age. They clearly produce players of the right quality, but I guess it comes down to numbers. With the Aussie and even England u17s/18s/19s, behind every player in the team are another two or three players of similar quality waiting to take their place.

Maybe for the French, it's that they don't have the numbers, so when quality youths get injured, discover girls, or get lazy, they don't have other kids of similar ability to step in and replace them?

France have always produced quality juniors, they just never had the resources or systems in place to take them further in their development. That has changed with the Dragons coming into Superleague. Excellent result for the French.